Letter to editor of Nauvoo Neighbor condemns the lynching of Black people.
Saul Among the Prophets [pseudonym], Letter to the Editor, July 11, 1843, Nauvoo Neighbor, July 19, 1843, 3
And when the editor of the Old School Democrat undertakes to cry gentleman of intelligence and integrity all we can say is, the partaker is as bad as the thief." If the editor of the Old School Democrat did not assist in burning a negro alive, in 1836, in St. Louis, it might have been for the reason, that he was engaged in a less conspicuous job in the gutter!